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An easy day because 35km is too far in one day to Besancon and it’s always good to get to a big place early. The boulongerie opposite our Gite is open at 5.30!! Whether this normal for it on a Sunday we don’t know and don’t take full advantage of it. Even so we are off up the Escalier du chateau about 50m to the château and church and another 50m on up to the little chapel on the top of the hill. These are good in the early morning light and we reach operating temperature quickly.
The next few hours are a romp through the woods unbothered by the VTT off road bikes, who are starting their race circuit. We saw adverts for this from a distance away yesterday.
There are lots more lavoirs and the decorative iron work on them is old and sometimes striking. Their use presumably continued until the near universal ownership of washing machines. We manage to get a beer from an enterprising stall in the Sunday market of brocante, Bric-a-brac in Cussy sur L’Ognon the most recent Saone tributary we are crossing and soon arrive in quiet on Sunday, Geneullie and the being refurbished campsite on the bank of the Ognon.